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This piece was originally posted on The Huffington Post. Read the original version HERE.

We love to think of “creativity” as something that’s reserved for the arts industries, crafters who spend most of their time on the weekends at Michael’s, and our children. Finger painting! How creative!

But creativity runs deeper than that, and one could argue that it actually is the backbone of our success in the workplace as adults. Sure, typing up a memo for the office might not feel very creative – but if your memo is interesting, well-written, concise… that takes creativity, my friend, whether you want to admit it or not.

To me, there are two pieces of creativity: the dreaming up of the idea in the first place, and the energy/enthusiasm with which is it executed. I can sit here and throw out one hundred ideas for television shows (“A man who gets hit by a bus and realizes that he’s been dead for 20 years and nobody even noticed…” “A woman who lives in a field in Norway and raises killer bees to be her own personal military…” etc.) or other creative endeavors.

We’ve all been told over and over again how important sleep is in order to get our brains working optimally. Sure… sleep is important, and yeah, staying up late reading horoscopes via my iPad will keep me up even later because of the blue screen…

…But I mean, really? What entrepreneur is like, “Hey, I gotta go to bed early…?”

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Hi there, blogger friend! I live in Southern California with my fiance and future stepson. Besides being The Blog Babe, I'm also an actress and a playwright and one of my greatest dreams is to write, produce and act in movies again and again and again. I play the harp and I'm making my way through every episode of Voyager.